By Tony Jimenez LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s Solheim Cup skipper Carin Koch believes all the pressure will be on opposite number Juli Inkster and her United States side at the biennial team event in Germany in September. Koch was involved as an assistant captain when fellow Swede Liselotte Neumann guided the visiting team to a record-breaking 18-10 victory in the women’s equivalent of the Ryder Cup in Colorado two years
Milwaukee’s Michael Carter-Williams scored eight of his 22 points in the fourth quarter as the Bucks again fended off elimination with a 94-88 NBA playoff win over the Chicago Bulls. Carter-Williams connected on 10 of 15 shots from the floor, handed out nine assists and grabbed eight rebounds for the Bucks, who narrowed the gap in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference first-round series to three-games-to-two. The young Bucks team had stayed
Cleveland Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith was suspended for two games by the NBA for striking a Boston player in the face in game four of their first-round playoff series. Smith will miss the first two games of the second round, in which the Cavs will face either Chicago or Milwaukee. Smith was ejected from Sunday’s game four, which the Cavaliers won to complete a sweep of the Celtics, after hitting
Cleveland big man Kevin Love will miss the second round of the NBA playoffs with a dislocated left shoulder, the Cavaliers said Monday. Love was hurt in the first quarter of Sunday’s first-round series-clinching win over Boston when he tangled with Celtics forward Kelly Olynyk as the two players battled for a loose ball.
– Jeremy Clarkson managed to get himself booted from what any of us would likely consider the greatest job . . . in the woooooorld. James May recently revealed that he won’t carry on with Top Gear without the loudmouthed Clarkson. Today, we learn that May only expected to get another three years out of the job anyway—but he’d already placed an order for a $317,000 Ferrari 458 Speciale, a
-The 650-hp Corvette Z06 is fast. Freaky fast. But Hennessey wants to outdo it with a regular ol’ Stingray. – The Texas tuner just demonstrated how fast a bone-stock C7 Z06 will do zero to 185 mph (and, subsequently, how quickly the gas gauge will drop on that top-speed run). We’re betting this “lesser” Stingray will do it even faster—provided it can get any traction at all. – That’s because the
-Is Ferdinand Piëch a man that Bob Lutz would have liked to work for? No, says the former General Motors executive in his signature, no-BS manner. He calles Piëch “the autocrat’s autocrat” but then explains that when you set aside the man’s “personal idiosyncrasies,” it is impossible to argue with his brilliance as a product genius with no tolerance for mediocrity. – It’s all in an exit interview that Lutz did with
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– We’ve had the pleasure of sampling some of the country’s best driving schools but were intrigued at the notion of moving from the track to the dirt. So we signed up for a stint at DirtFish rally school in Snoqualmie, Washington. – Our TV-savvy readers may recognize this location from Twin Peaks, the wonderfully bizarre, early ’90s crime thriller; the 315-acre facility is where much of the show was
– – The Chinese automaker that unveiled a fish-tank armrest at this year’s Detroit auto show would like to sell Americans an SUV in 2017. It would cost 30 percent less than a comparable Toyota RAV4, plus its maker claims it’ll be more efficient, powerful, and roomier—although it will come sans the aquarium in the back seat. – Those claims come from an Automotive News interview with Guangzhou Automobile Group
